Pepper: 'Kennedy role was incredible'

Barry Pepper has claimed that playing Bobby Kennedy in upcoming television mini-series The Kennedys was "an incredible experience".

The actor told Collider that he had heavily researched his role before filming began on the eight-part drama.

"I read every book that has been written on the Kennedys," he explained. "[I also] listened to every phone call between Jack and Bobby and every speech that Bobby gave and really just lived with him for [the] five months that I was involved in the project."

He added: "Everything that I could find, I compiled digitally and he just lived with me, in my ears, all day long."

However, Pepper admitted that the project had initially caused concern for the Kennedy estate.

"There was a little bit of difficulty going in...because the keepers of the Kennedy flame, if you will, were very concerned that the image of Camelot might be eroded," he revealed. "I think early drafts of the script might have given them an illusion that it was more of a salacious piece than it really was."